在巴索(杰瑞德·莱托 Jared Leto 饰)很小的时候,他的母亲就去世了,在专制严苛的父亲的冷血教育之下,巴索长大成人并且进入了牛津大学深造。一次偶然中,巴索解释了名叫约翰(克里斯汀·史莱特 Christian Slater 饰)的男子,并且在约翰的介绍下认识了茱莉亚(克莱尔·弗兰妮 Claire Forlani 饰),巴索不可自持的爱上了茱莉亚。 然而,两人的这段感情遭到了巴索父亲的强烈反对,因为巴索和茱莉亚所处的根本就不是一个阶级,可即便如此,巴索还是坚定的选择了茱莉亚。让巴索没有想到的是,原来茱莉亚和约翰在私底下有奸情,当茱莉亚的父亲告诉巴索茱莉亚腹中怀着他的孩子时,巴索会做出怎样的选择呢?
Based on the internationally acclaimed Tudor murder mystery novels by C.J. Sansom, the four-part drama is set in 16th century England during the dissolution of the monasteries. The series will follow the story of Matthew Shardlake, a lawyer with an acute sense of justice and one of the few honest men in a world beset with scheming and plots. Shardlake works for Thomas Cromwell, the dangerous and all-powerful right-hand man to Henry VIII. Despite Shardlake’s unwavering loyalty to Cromwell and the Crown, his position in society is unfavored due to his appearance, as a person living with scoliosis during the Tudor period, suffering the indignity of being abused as a “crookback” wherever he turns. As he investigates the murder of one of Cromwell’s commissioners at a monastery in the remote town of Scarnsea, he is accompanied by Jack Barak, a cocky and good-looking character who may be Cromwell’s spy.
Nothing is more frightening, as the narrator points out, than a ‘time-rich nosy person’. Exhibit A is Ahn Geo-ul (Gyeong Su-jin), who commits herself to social justice causes with terrifying tenacity. After temporarily renting a unit in the Baek-sae Apartment building, she discovers that a loud, hard to locate banging noise occurs from 4am every night, making the residents’ lives an insomniac hell – and so she determines to engage in her own disruption and to find the culprit of this acoustic assault, simultaneously eliminating her eccentric neighbours as suspects, and recruiting them to her cause. Focusing on a woman who is an unstoppable force for good, it is also a plea for community cohesion and solidarity.